ANGRY

a.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [Obs.] God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor.

2.
a.

Inflamed and painful, as a sore.

3.
a.

Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. Gen. xlv. 5. Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice Eccles. v. 6.

4.
a.

Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance." Prov. xxv. 23.

5.
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Red. [R.] Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave. Herbert.

6.
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Sharp; keen; stimulated. [R.] I never ate with angrier appetite. Tennyson.


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